Lata Mangeshkar

Bharat Ratna Lata Mangeshkar (??? ???????) (born September 28, 1929) is a popular Indian singer, whose career has spanned over six decades. Although she has worked on non-film songs and has sung in many languages, she is chiefly known as a Bollywood Hindi playback singer.

Lata the person

More than her magical voice, it was Lata's humility that made her a favorite singer of all the composers, lyricists, actors and producers in Bollywood. Actress Waheeda Rahman, whose songs were most often sung by Lata, once said that "Lata never thinks of herself as The Lata Mangeshkar. She does her job to best of her abilities and never looks back." Lata owns a flat in London. She and her sister Asha Bhosle can be often found vacationing in London.

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Waheeda Rahman - London - Asha Bhosle

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Lata has received four Filmfare Awards, the Platinum Disc of EMI London and many other awards. Noor Jehan, whom Lata used to imitate in her early years as a singer, once said "people say Lataji considers me as a phenomenon. I would say that's her humility. Lataji is Lataji. No singer like her has ever been born."

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Filmfare Award - Noor Jehan

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In 2002, a controversy developed because soul music artist Truth Hurts sampled Lata's singing without crediting her or paying royalties in the hit single "Addictive." That same year, Ghalib Shiraz Dhalla wrote a novel about a gay Indian-American man called "Ode to Lata" in honor of the performer.

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